Putin’s pushback should have come as no surprise. After all,
the West had been moving into Russia’s backyard and
threatening its core strategic interests, a point Putin made
emphatically and repeatedly.

The new government in Kiev was pro-Western and anti-Russian
to the core, and it contained four high-ranking members who
could legitimately be labeled neofascists.

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What Mearsheimer fails to grasp is what is a Fascist. Putin is the
Fascist in the historical meaning of the word.

Putin tries to equate anti communist with Fascism. That is not a correct
use of terms historically.